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Digital Marketing in Nigeria.

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Digital Marketing in Nigeria.



INTERNET MARKETING IN NIGERIA OBJECTIVES.

Internet marketing is part and parcel of marketing in the 21st century, it has gain optimum recognition over a decade since it’s introduction into the marketing system, with search engine marketing coming in with a major breakthrough in this industry and then followed by social media marketing, this two giants of online marketing services have grown to become a formidable two side of the coin.



They both have made breakthroughs for other forms of marketing to spring up like subsidiaries form of marketing, eg content marketing which comprises of email, blogging, forum, article and social groups for communities. You also have the likes of video marketing, mobile marketing, cost per action, pay per clicks, cost per impressions, banner advertising, contextual advertisements and so many call to action mode of advertisement online, which now gain profound exposure thanks to the outreached and popularity of both social media and search engine sites have created for themselves.



All souring to the creation of new job opportunities and creations that are looked up to as professional post in small medium and big companies, eg seo specialist, social media manager, content strategist, Online reputation manager, etc.



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INTERNET MARKETING FOCUS AIMs

a. Brand Awareness and Promotion

b. Generate and Sustain Customers

c. Improve Customer Product Behavior

d. Increase Product Sales Conversion

e. Increase Product Circulation and Distribution

f. Situation Analysis (feasibility studies, market research)

g. Competition Analysis "Branding" 

h. Financial Analysis (Marketing cost, budget and returns on Investment using internet marketing)





PREAMBLE: ONLINE MARKETING IN NIGERIA

Why propose the use of digital Marketing in Nigeria for your business? Let’s kick off with this following case study using Nigeria as our guinea pig in this experiment. Nigeria is a third world country and is categorized has a developing country, if you take a literal survey about the country you will get to see how buoyant the use of internet is in the country, firstly the country is populated with over 180 million people and are ranked 7th most populous country in the world. 

Their economy is one of the fastest growing too likewise the use of internet, the country do have less well educated professionals and more average learned person with respect to illiterates, so you can say they have got a fair mark for this case study.

So why will I deploy an interest in working on a strong trend of internet marketing development in this country?, well with the research carried out lately due to this date of writing I figure that by the year 2020 that this country will be very ripe for internet marketing take over, similar to their entertainment industry which has profound success over the years of its existence, if anything can best this record, Internet marketing definitely can.



Please read through the researched data below to help justify this claim:

RESEARCH ANALYSIS

INTERNET USAGE IN NIGERIA


 






(Records) Nigeria Internet Usage









































































































































































































Year

(July 1)
Internet Users** User

Growth
New Users Country Population Population

Change
Penetration

(% of Pop. with Internet)
Country's Share of World Population Country's Share of World Internet Users Global Rank
2014* 67,101,452 16% 9,365,590 178,516,904 2.82% 37.59% 2.46% 2.30% 8
2013* 57,735,862 4% 2,229,563 173,615,345 2.83% 33.26% 2.42% 2.13% 8
2012 55,506,299 19% 8,826,250 168,833,776 2.83% 32.88% 2.38% 2.20% 8
2011 46,680,049 22% 8,350,181 164,192,925 2.81% 28.43% 2.35% 2.04% 10
2010 38,329,867 23% 7,253,663 159,707,780 2.78% 24.00% 2.31% 1.87% 10
2009 31,076,204 30% 7,094,603 155,381,020 2.76% 20.00% 2.27% 1.76% 10
2008 23,981,601 141% 14,017,018 151,208,080 2.73% 15.86% 2.24% 1.53% 15
2007 9,964,584 25% 2,017,720 147,187,353 2.70% 6.77% 2.21% 0.73% 19
2006 7,946,863 60% 2,992,743 143,314,909 2.67% 5.55% 2.17% 0.68% 19
2005 4,954,121 183% 3,204,983 139,585,891 2.64% 3.55% 2.14% 0.48% 19
2004 1,749,138 136% 1,008,744 135,999,250 2.60% 1.29% 2.11% 0.19% 20
2003 740,394 79% 326,278 132,550,146 2.57% 0.56% 2.08% 0.10% 20
2002 414,116 266% 300,836 129,224,641 2.56% 0.32% 2.06% 0.06% 20
2001 113,280 44% 34,540 126,004,992 2.55% 0.09% 2.03% 0.02% 20
2000 78,740 60% 29,563 122,876,727 2.54% 0.06% 2.01% 0.02% 20

* estimate

** Internet User = individual who can access the Internet at home, via any device type and connection.



Source: Internet Live Stats (www.InternetLiveStats.com)

Elaboration of data by International Telecommunication Union (ITU), World Bank, and United Nations Population Division.



 




LEAD GENERATION WITH INTERNET MARKETING (CASE STUDY)

I will like to illustrate the potential of online marketing in Nigeria using the following data



INTERNET USAGE IN NIGERIA

INTERNET POPULATION: 45,039,711


GDP Per Capita: $2898



INTERNET MARKET POTENTIAL

GDP*Users/million: 105,469million

INTERNET ADVERTISING [ONLINE MARKETING]

MARKET SHARE IN NIGERIA

SEARCH ENGINES


Google - 88.47%

Yahoo - 5.85%

Bing - 4.42%

Ask jeeves - 0.88%

Mamma - 0.1%

SOURCE: mvfglobal.com



MOBILE USERS IN NIGERIA

TELECOM INDUSTRY - 99 Million active subscribers

Attestation: Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC)

SOURCE: cp-africa.com



With the mobile internet user grown into 93 Million this makes mobile marketing a gold mine in Nigeria both for sms and online marketing in nigeria.



SOURCE: Leadership.ng





source: tradingeconomics.com



SOCIAL MEDIA IN NIGERIA

FACEBOOK: 6,712,700 users

POSITION IN THE WORLD: 31st

FACEBOOK PENETRATION: 14.9%

SOURCE: socialbakers.com

TWITTER PENETRATION: 4.41%

POSITION IN AFRICA: 3rd

SOURCE: SEOWEBANALYST (nairaland.com)





TOP TEN MOST VISITED SITES IN NIGERIA



http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/NG

This is to simply showcase the usage of the internet among Nigerians and how well saturated the use of the web is with them, thus with Facebook and Google clearly taking the highest share in the competition list of search engines and also stating it’s vibrant possibilities for digital marketing in Nigeria, it’s no wonder why Google’s subsidiary local search site for Nigeria (google.com.ng) is ranking 273 in the world, with more effort driven to ensure the growth of this industry it is quite going to be a source for revenue and job creation to the populist in the future. 



CONCLUSION

Our research has boldly detailed the capability of internet usage for marketing in Nigeria, thanks to the share of marketing audience it generates.



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Olatunji Adetunji

I am a seo web analyst and have a love for anything online marketing. Have been able to perform researches using the built up internet marketing tool; seo web analyst as a case study and will be using the web marketing tool (platform).

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